[kj] OT - John Lever Former Chameleons Drummer has died.

fatpotanga . fatpotanga at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 03:39:59 EDT 2017


I only ever got to see them once at the Ritz c2001 and it was mesmerising,
although you could see the cracks starting to show by the whithered looks
from Mark to Dave.
As far as I know, that's only where the bad blood runs? In his
autobiography he talks fondly of Reg.
Like you say, be interesting to see what happens. Death can be a great
healer as Camp KJ can attest.

As for reunions, never say never; look at KJ. Marks long time collaborator
Yves Altana stepped in on drums for ChameleonsVox. About 10 years back Yves
engineered and produced a demo for an old band I was in at Martin
'Can-you-dig-it' Coogans studio, Vibe. Nice guy, and great company. really
passionate, in a Mad Corsican kind of way. HUGE killing joke fan.


On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 at 12:18, Brian Whitehead <bawhitehead at gmail.com> wrote:

> Same for me, one day KJ are number one and on another it's The Chameleons.
> I'm no expert on drumming but I always thought he was an under rated
> drummer. Very powerful and driving...similar to Big Paul?
>
> Some great nights watching the Chameleons non more so the 5 nights at the
> Witchwood back in 2001 was it.
>
> Puts an end to the dream of a re-union.
>
> After all the acrimony with Mark will be interesting to have Reg, Dave and
> Mark in the same place again. I read what Mark said last year and he didn't
> hold back.
>
> Anybody know what was the cause of death.
>
> Ye sadly missed,
>
> Brian.
>
>
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